[Xmca-l] A contribution of value, I hope

[Anthony Barra]

In our 8th grade classroom, we have used Burke's (1941) "parlor" metaphor
to support work on literary themes, argumentation, media analysis,
role-playing, and class discussion:

"Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others
> have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a
> discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is
> about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them
> got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the
> steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you
> have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone
> answers you; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another
> aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification
> of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance.
> However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must
> depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in
> progress." Kenneth Burke, *The Philosophy of Literary Form*


In 1996, Russell Hunt, Gordon Wells, and others had an interesting xmca
exchange on the topic of "Burke's Parlor," including Hunt's observation
that "Gordon's narrative, which I think I prefer to Burke's, leaves out the
agnostic character of the discussion: in Burke, writing in 1941, the
assumption was that the conversation HAD to be a contest."  I don't think
it does.

Whether contest, dialogue, dialectic, or mere background noise, I hope this
latest conversational turn is a contribution of value:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEK3JV1Ux_5WEs1bAjoH_AXCxFMVAF6bF__;!!Mih3wA!S7ys-XdCYKh3HU5OKRoNJuEgk62EmIhOla1afIpa9D1qrvWwtfoGFtCYeUPWbash32dSWA$ 

As a non-expert, I have been trying to learn in public, and I can promise
that your current or future students will find this helpful. If this
statement sounds reasonable, please feel free to share.

Thank you,

Anthony

P.S. The two videos in the playlist are on the longer side; there was no
way around that.
While not a substitute, this collection of 2-3 minute snippets does contain
a fair amount of overlap:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEK3JV1Ux_5W2ZfG2I-J7prbfDUK_dIlo__;!!Mih3wA!S7ys-XdCYKh3HU5OKRoNJuEgk62EmIhOla1afIpa9D1qrvWwtfoGFtCYeUPWbat46QJmlQ$ 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.ucsd.edu/pipermail/xmca-l/attachments/20200616/95612e25/attachment.html